I began posting The Glittering Eye on March 15, 2004. That means that as of yesterday this blog is 22 years old.
Nearly 22,000 posts later I plan to keep posting here as long as I live which I hope will be a few more years. Given family history I doubt the blog will be around long enough to celebrate a 30th birthday but who knows?
An enormous amount has changed over 22 years and yet nothing has changed. There was once a flourishing blogosphere of thousands of individual voices arguing, speculating, linking, and responding to one another in realtime. Much of that world has since been absorbed into legacy media or platforms like Substack in attempts to monetize blogging. Monetization has never been a goal of mine and I have never seriously pursued it.
Partisans still reflexively bicker back and forth. We are at war in the Middle East. China remains our primary global competitor.
The technology changes. The arguments mostly don’t.
I keep posting.
Thank you for hosting the Blog. I enjoy the discussion and hearing different points of view,. I also like that it tends to be civil discussion. I hope you make it to 30!
Congrats! Most of the blogs disappeared, local news is going away and national media is owned by a few rich guys. Meh. At least we have eternal war in the Mideast and so much to show for it.
Steve
Happy Birthday Blog!
Happy Blog Birthday!
Congratulations on 22 years of intellectual grinding! It may be unlikely (for both sides), but I hope to see another 22 years of effort on your part. No doubt we’ll still be at war in the ME, but sone of the other conditions arre likely to change.
In theory I could live that long—a great-uncle did. In practice it’s unlikely.
This blog will last as long as I’m alive.